A small but rich farming duchy that is now,
with Kerendas, a main source of food for the empire. It has only recently regained its agricultural state after being
severely taxed over 30 years ago by the emperor. At the time Thyatis was in great need of extra money, still
recovering from the recent invasion by Alphatia. The Karameikos family once held this duchy, but the duke
exchanged his birthright with the emperor for rulership of the Grand Duchy of
Traladara (which he humbly renamed after himself). More recently, the Duke of Machetos joined the rebels, and
Eusebius is considering reducing its status to county, which would be more
appropriate given its size and population.

The
Land

Machetos is a strip of coastal plains
sandwiched between the Kerendas and Rugalov rivers. It is covered with small, prosperous farmsteads. There are some forests in its northern
portion, which are carefully tended and used to produce timber for construction
and shipbuilding.

There is only one settlement of appreciable
size in Machetos, a small but picturesque town, dominated by the ducal castle-a
powerful and menacing fortification built by the Karameikos family. On the western border of Machetos is
Blackpoint Citadel, an imperial garrison that protects Thyatis' borders from
any spill over from Karameikos' disorderly wilderness.

The
People

Machetos is a somewhat sleepy backwater of
the imperium, and you can see why an
ambitious and grasping man might prefer to trade away his responsibilities here
for something elsewhere. None the less,
it is filled with decent, hard-working people.
These are mostly free farmers, as Thincol sold the Machetan slaves
elsewhere when he exchanged the duchy with Stefan. Though this made for economic hardship during the subsequent
decades, Machetos has developed since then as a region largely free of
plantation-style agriculture. Recently
Eusebius has taken some of the lessons learned from Machetos' experience and
applied it elsewhere in Thyatis, attempting to avoid some of the pitfalls that
resulted in the dislocation of Machetos' economy and the hardships that it
caused.